Covenant Stories: Upside Down and Backwards
Story #17 in the Covenant series
I’d like to leave the narrative of Covenant Baptist Church for a moment and talk about something rather odd that I’ve noticed about our church. At Covenant, everything seems to be upside down and backwards. We’re not trying to be different. We’ve never called ourselves an “alternative church.” We do things that seem right to us, but they seem to be the opposite of what most churches do.
Now before I write this, I want to state very clearly and carefully that I am NOT suggesting that any other church ought to do things the way we do them. There is certainly no shortage of “how to do church” books out there, with Dr. This or Reverend That revealing the deep, spiritual truths he has discovered that will increase your fold, or foster real intimacy, or kick-start your small group ministry, or blah blah blah in a postmodern blah.
If I wrote a book it would be called, “How to take a church from 14 families to 40 families in only 10 years of bivocational ministry.” Just kidding, though that title would be accurate. My “how to” church book would be a single index card. Written on it in pencil would be this:...
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Blurry vision
Submitted by Simon on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:14.-
I got to this line:
"My way of preaching really only works if you are within arms length of someone you love," and I had to stop and keep reading it over and over again while my vision got a little blurry. I think I'd love to come to your little church. This from someone who is very nearly an atheist, but would love your church.